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...last Danel Seltzer's Falstaff has entered the present cycle of undergraduates, and if you listen to wise talk, you know already why to see this production. Sir John has been played often enough as an ale-soaked halfwit, his besottedness hesitantly offered as an excuse for his license; Mr. Seltzer is well clear of this feeble nonsense. Between magnificent gusts and wheezes, he calculates with serene deliberation each of the fat knight's lies, each of his aphorisms and fancies, and the result is to show that not only Mr. Seltzer but Falstaff too is always creating the character...
...average Canadian can hardly step outside his house without finding himself dealing in some way with one of the vast enterprises of Edward Plunket Taylor. At 62 Taylor still works tirelessly at turning a profit on his every interest, whether it be racing horses, brewing beer and ale, or basking in the hot sun of the Bahamas. His personal wealth does not make him Canada's richest businessman, but his financial empire makes him the most influential. Spread out over some dozen industries, it has grown with such speed and success that a longtime associate of Taylor claims that...
...largest supermarket chain (350 stores). Argus also controls Canadian gold and iron mines, plywood and lumber mills, shopping centers, a satellite city, Canada's largest radio station (Toronto's CFRB) and Canadian Breweries (Carling's), the world's largest brewer of beer and ale. Total sales...
...teapot is the work of Jesse Kip, and was probably made between 1720 and 1722 for the Douw family. The caudle cup, also the work of Onckelbag. is engraved with the stars-and-windmill arms of the Van Cortlandt family, was used for dispensing a mixture of wine or ale, eggs, gruel, sugar and spices to the sick and their visitors. Onckelbag's bowl with graceful curved handles is 12 in. wide and is ornamented with a floral design showing a strong Scandinavian influence; inside the base are the Twyford family arms. The porringer was made by Jurian Blanck...
Last week, after nearly 150 years of discussing reform, the House of Commons debated a weights and measures bill no less momentous than the Act of 1824 that abolished Queen Anne's wine gallon (231 cu. in.) and the ale gallon (282) in favor of the present imperial gallon (277.4). The government bill abolishes entirely the linear measurement, beloved of school textbooks, known as rod, pole or perch, a 5 ½yd. unit based originally on the combined length of the left feet of 16 men. The government also lengthens the yard* and lightens the pound to conform...